Top diplomats of Japan, U.S., Australia, India eye talks in Sept.

The foreign ministers of Japan, the United States, Australia and India are arranging to hold a meeting in New York next month, diplomatic sources said Wednesday, amid China's expanding military and economic clout in the Indo-Pacific region.The ministers from the four-way grouping, known as the Quad, would gather on the fringes of the U.N. General Assembly's annual general debate session starting from Sept. 19 to reaffirm their cooperation on security and other areas, according to the sources.Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Australian Foreign Minis…READ FULL ARTICLE